Activities of the Dealing with the Past project: Project activities in 2003

By Roberta Bacic

Conferences

1. Towards a better future … building healthy communities
   Workshop: Memorials-The Chilean Experience
   Lecture: Closing session called Steps to a Shared Future
   Date: 1-3 October 2003
   Venue: Stormont Hotel, Upper Newtownards Road, Belfast, N. Ireland

Workshops and seminars

1. Strengths and limitation of truth commissions: The cases of Argentina, Chile, South Africa and Guatemala
   Date: 6 March 2003 9.15-16.00
   Venue: Peterhouse College Centre of International Studies & Cambridge International Studies Association, UK
2. Healing the past: An evening of stories and music "Guadalupe"
   Date: 16 April 2003 5pm-7.30pm
   Venue: St. Ethelburga's Centre for reconciliation and peace, London, UK
3. Agenda for turning the tide training: Dealing with fear, as part of Joanne Sheehan's training in non-violence
   Date: 10 May 2003, 1hr 30 min
   Venue: Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Room 2, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London, UK

Workshop with children:

1. Session on peace for Millennium Primary School, whole school assembly with music by Tony Kempster
   Date: 6 February 2003
   Venue: Millennium Primary School, Greenwich, London, UK

Lectures:

1. Truth commissions
   Date: 12 March 2003 (approx. 2 hrs)
   Venue: Amnesty International, Lymington, UK
2. Young peacemaker event: Challenges for young peacemakers around the world
   Keynote speaker
   Date: 23 May 2003, 10 am- 1 pm
   Venue: Quaker Peace and Social Witness, Room 2, Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London, UK
3. Working with conflict course: Rebuilding relationships and reconciliation
   Date: 12-13 June 2003, 9.30 am -1 pm, 2.15 pm- 4 pm
   Venue: Responding to conflict, Birmingham, UK
4. The ethics of post war intervention: Dilemmas of conflict transformation practice
   CCTS seminar, present as one of the panelists
   Date: 6 October, 2003, 10.30-16.00
   Venue: Friend's House, 173 Euston Road, London, NW1, UK
5. Human rights, governance and participation
   Human rights course for MA and certificate students, given with Dr. C. McCartney
   Date: 13 October-17.10.2003, daily 9.00-12.30 and 14.00-17.00
   Venue: European Peace University, Stadtschlaining, Austria
6. Truth and its relevance in reconciliation processes, lecture for MA students of reconciliation studies
   Date: 2 December 2003
   Venue: Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, Belfast, N. Ireland

Exhibitions:

1. Memory and memorials from Chile: 30 years since the military coup
   Itinerant exhibition: online edition available in English, German and Spanish

   Date: 9 June- 4 July 2003

   Venue: St. Ethelburga's Center for Reconciliation and Peace, London, UK

   Date: 4-8 August 2003, 10 am-4 pm

   Venue: West Belfast Festival, St. Mary's University College, Belfast, N. Ireland

   Date: 11-30 September 2003

   Open day and evening
   Venue: Burgenzentrum Villa Leon, Schlachthofstrasse, Nürnberg, Germany

   Date: 13 October- 12 November 2003

   Venue: European Peace University, Stadtschlaining, Austria

   Date: 10 December 2003- 4 January 2004.

   Launch with music by Tony Kempster
   Venue: Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge, UK

Articles:

1. Dealing with the past
   Published in The Anglican Peacemaker, Vol.3, Issue 1, Feb. 2003 p.5
2. Speaking for themselves
   Review of a book: Truth and lies, stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
   Published in Peace News No 2450, March-May 2003, p.38
3. A brief testimony about the Chilean churches' commitment to human rights during Pinochet's dictatorship
   Published in: Committee for Conflict Transformation and Support Newsletter, No 21, July 2003, p.5
4. Movement against torture Sebastian Acevedo
   Published in: Making Waves, no 15 Autumn 2003, p. 4-6
5. 11. September 2003- Konfrontationen mit einer Welt, die nicht gastfreundlich und nicht sicher ist
   Published in: Frauen in der Einen Welt, 2/2003, p.75-77